GSoC 2012 Blog Post

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

I have just finished the beta-draft of our GSoC-2012 blog post:

https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2012-Blog-Post

I invite everyone to take a look at this text and to add or correct
things at will. I didn't really have the possibility to follow the
progress of everyone during the summer, and my mathematical knowledge
is rather patchy in general, so, please, take your time to check the
one or two paragraphs that belong to your domain of expertise. Please
do check the spelling of names; I tried to be as careful as possible,
but slips are human, and I apologise for them.

The introductory paragraphs are heavily based on [0] (that is, I
basically did educated copying and pasting), so they should be
(mostly) fine. I would be grateful if somebody could check that part
as well, though.

There are some bits of data that may be severely off because I
couldn't (quickly) find the necessary references. These points are
marked with comments enclosed in (** and **). Aaron, I am afraid I
will have to hand off the task of assuring the factual accuracy of
such information to you.

I tried to present everyone's contributions equally, but I would like
to ask that someone check this aspect as well.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find the properly complete GSoC reports by
Stefan and Angadh. I tried to concoct a general presentation based on
their GSoC blogs, but given my essentially nonexistent knowledge in
the concerned domains, I explicitly Cc Stefan and Angadh in the hope
that they will find the time to review the corresponding paragraphs.

I have also updated the GSoC 2012 Report Links page [1]. As with the
GSoC 2012 Blog Post, I largely copied over the text from [2], but do
take the time to quickly check this page as well, since the Blog Post
contains a link to it.

Sergiu

[0] http://google-opensource.blogspot.fr/2011/12/students-add-to-sympy.html

[1] https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Gsoc-2012-Report-Links/

[2] https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Gsoc-2011-report

[Sergiu Ivanov]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 04:23:29PM +0100, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, I couldn't find the properly complete GSoC reports by
> Stefan and Angadh. I tried to concoct a general presentation based on
> their GSoC blogs, but given my essentially nonexistent knowledge in
> the concerned domains, I explicitly Cc Stefan and Angadh in the hope
> that they will find the time to review the corresponding paragraphs.

OK, sorry for the botched Cc -- I was too clever in editing the
headers of the E-mail. I hope the concerned people are still reading
the general group messages though.

Sergiu

[David Joyner]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Sergiu Ivanov
<sergiu....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just finished the beta-draft of our GSoC-2012 blog post:
>
> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2012-Blog-Post
>
> I invite everyone to take a look at this text and to add or correct
> things at will. I didn't really have the possibility to follow the

Regarding Aleksandar Makelov's project, I would like some way of
acknowledging the huge amount of work Chris Smith did. I noted 2 threads
on merging A.M.'s code into sympy that each had 70+ emails. Also,
"pernici" helped a lot (and I apologize for forgetting his real name),
as did several others.

> progress of everyone during the summer, and my mathematical knowledge
> is rather patchy in general, so, please, take your time to check the
> one or two paragraphs that belong to your domain of expertise. Please
> do check the spelling of names; I tried to be as careful as possible,
> but slips are human, and I apologise for them.
>

...

[Sergiu Ivanov]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 10:34:14AM -0500, David Joyner wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Sergiu Ivanov
> <sergiu....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have just finished the beta-draft of our GSoC-2012 blog post:
> >
> > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-2012-Blog-Post
> >
> > I invite everyone to take a look at this text and to add or correct
> > things at will. I didn't really have the possibility to follow the
>
>
> Regarding Aleksandar Makelov's project, I would like some way of
> acknowledging the huge amount of work Chris Smith did. I noted 2 threads
> on merging A.M.'s code into sympy that each had 70+ emails. Also,
> "pernici" helped a lot (and I apologize for forgetting his real name),
> as did several others.

I'm not sure how including such information is compatible with the
overall image of a GSoC organisation blog post. The point of the
post, as I see it, is to put forward the contributions of the
students, the new members of the community, while keeping the huge
help of mentors in mind, but not necessarily on paper. If we state
that certain community members helped Aleksandar a lot, it may look
like he was the only student to require much support. On the other
hand, making a similar statement in the presentation of every student
will feel redundant. My final argument is that one does non see such
mentions in the 2011 blog post [0].

I do not insist on this position, however, and if there is going to be
another person supporting your opinion, I will add the necessary
phrases to the text.

Sergiu

[0] http://google-opensource.blogspot.fr/2011/12/students-add-to-sympy.html

[Aaron Meurer]

Thanks a lot. I will check this, and then submit it to Google.

And also, they need to write their reports!

[Aaron Meurer]

It looks good. I've made some edits cleaning up some stuff and
correcting things. You've got a tendency to write extra words in your
sentences that don't add to the content, so I've trimmed some stuff
down a bit. I've got a feeling Google might even want us to trim it
down more, as they don't want it too long. I edited it on my
computer, and also rewrapped some of the text, so if you are looking
at the diff, you might want to use the git version and use git diff
--color-words.

I'll wait a bit to give the students and mentors a chance to check on
what is written for their own projects, and also so that we hopefully
will have all the reports written. I especially hope that someone can
look over what is written for Angadh, Guru, and Stefan. I've CCed the
relevant people

I put my name at the bottom, as these things are usually written by
the org admin for the organization, but I also added "SymPy
community," since most of it was written by you guys.

By the way, if someone wants to add Wikipedia links for some of the
key technical terms, that might be helpful.

Aaron Meurer

[Stefan Krastanov]

Hi all,

Sorry for not reacting sooner (and happy new year by the way :)

The text describing my project is exact, however most of the side
projects that were mentioned are not merged. I will try to continue
working on them when the current tensor module by pernici is merged.

Concerning the comment by David Joyner, the full name of @pernici is
Mario Pernici IIRC.

I will also see what is missing about my report and fix it.

[Guru Devanla]

Aaron,

The text describing my project looks fine to me, too. I will also take a peak at my project report and make any changes if I see them necessary.

Thanks

[Aleksandar Makelov]

Hi, sorry for getting back to you that late, just wanted to say that I'm very happy with the description of my GSoC project, it's concise and to the point. Thanks guys!

[Aaron Meurer]

OK, I've sent it to Google. If you want to make any changes, make
them soon (I just sent the link)!

I'll let you know when it's been posted.

Aaron Meurer

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